Weekly News 49

Play Finland’s Weekly Newsletter

In this report we will combine week 49/2020 from the Finnish Game Industry and will be posted every Friday afternoon. Check out the previous post here.

News are gathered from the Play Finland group posts during the week. That is why we recommend you to post by yourself (however not flood) your Finnish Game Industry related news to the group. It also guarantees that your news will be visible in the weekly newsletter /news compilation. Play Finland is at the moment one of the main channels for sharing information inside the industry.

Best Regards,
Neogames Finland

 Events:

• 5th December KOR-FIN Esports Festival 2020 한핀 e스포츠 페스티벌
• 7th December Games Now! open lecture series at Aalto University; “Exergaming” (online)
• 8th December Accenture, King and the Out in Tech organization are hosting an online breakfast panel on an exciting discussion on the topic of LGBTQI+ Role Models in the Tech Industry
• 9th December: South Korean market Pitching event for Finnish Game Developers
• 9th December: Character Workshop by Bambinomonkey
• 10th December: AWE Nite Helsinki: Fashionable XR
• 18th December The (international) Games Industry Holiday Party Palooza (online)
• 25th January  Games Now! open lecture series at Aalto University; “Founding a Game Company (in Finland), Again” (online)
• 15th February Games Now! open lecture series at Aalto University; “Building Sustainable Gaming Cultures” (online)
• 29th March Games Now! open lecture series at Aalto University; “Fostering Playful Experiences with Wearables” (online)
• March 2021(Date tbc) British Academy Games Awards
  • Tuesday 2 March 2021 – Nominations announced
  • March 2021 (Date tbc) – British Academy Games Awards
• 19th April Games Now! open lecture series at Aalto University; “Next Generation of Interactive Streaming” (online)
• 3rd May Games Now! open lecture series at Aalto University; “Art of Learning by Doing – The Great Game Jam Panel” (online)
• 19th-23rd of July GDC 2021

See also The Game Industry Events calendar

EGDF in co-operation with Slovak Game Developers Association has build gameconfguide.com for complete list of games industry events and conferences and their status.

 Announcements:

• Yousician got the Digi app of the year reward in Finland. Article only in Finnish.